Welcome to another week of our blog series featuring our Diverse Collections! Each week, we share an archival collection that relates to or represents an underrepresented community in Idaho.
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Other Faces, Other Lives - Asian Americans in Idaho
Diverse Collections
Welcome to another week of our blog series featuring our Diverse Collections! Each week, we share an archival collection that relates to or represents an underrepresented community in Idaho.
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History of Gambling in Idaho
In the Idaho Territory days of the mid-1800s, gambling was prominent in parts of Idaho.1 As the area inched closer to statehood, however, local officials began to crack down. In 1889, the original state constitution was written and ratified. Article III, Section 20 was noticeably vague about the legality of...
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Manuscript Bible Verses in Nez Perce
Digital Memories
Henry Harmon Spalding, whose life as a missionary to the Nez Perce Indians was one of trial and tribulation, failed at most things in his life. However, his Idaho ministry had some significant accomplishments. Arriving at Lapwai Creek where it flows into the Clearwater River in 1836, Spalding recognized the...
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Idaho Ebony - The Afro-American Presence in Idaho State History
Diverse Collections
Welcome to another week of our blog series featuring our Diverse Collections! Each week, we share an archival collection that relates to or represents an underrepresented community in Idaho.
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Pride Month Display
The Library has a new Special Collections display on the first floor outside the Reading Room! To honor LGBTQ+ Pride Month this June, we’re showcasing some of our archival collections that relate to LGBTQ+ history in Idaho!
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Idaho Test Oath
Digital Memories
Idaho politics during the territorial period were as convoluted and Byzantine as any before or since. Political and regional factionalism pitted the Democrats and the Mormons against the newly emerging Republicans and the Northern secessionists. When the Mormon and Democrat contingent lost control of the territory in 1882, ambitious Republicans...
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Mortar Board
Diverse Collections
Welcome to another week of our blog series featuring our Diverse Collections! Each week, we share an archival collection that relates to or represents an underrepresented community.
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Lily Wai
Wonder Women
Lily Wai was born in Hangzhou, China on 29 September 1939. In 1946, her parents and three siblings moved to the village of Wu-er in Taiwan. In 1961, Wai moved to Kansas for graduate school and met her husband Chien. They married in Los Angeles in 1965.
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Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
Diverse Collections
Welcome to another week of our blog series featuring our Diverse Collections! Each week, we share an archival collection that relates to or represents an underrepresented community.
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